To honor the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Ohio State University School of Music, we are excited to invite you to a conference on Practitioner-Centered Music Theory: Concepts, Methods, Perspectives. This conference will draw together scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners across music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, music cognition, public music theory and related fields who use interviews, (auto) ethnography, and other quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how musicians across a range of practices conceptualize what they do, in dialogue with or distinct from institutionalized music theories.
The Program Committee invites proposals including (but not limited to) the following themes:
Theorist-practitioners and practitioner-theorists
Theories of technologically-based practice
Music theory in oral traditions, including ensemble leadership and pedagogy
Music theory in musical (sub)cultures
Vernacular music theories
Embodied music theories
Ensemble-centered theories of collective creative practice
Practitioner-centered theory through fieldwork and/or archival research
Practitioner-centered theory, instruments, and the voice
Co-creative processes between musicians, dancers, and other artists
Featured Speakers:
Jason Rawls, assistant professor of Hip Hop, The Ohio State University
Jonathan de Souza, associate professor of Music Theory, University of Western Ontario
Leslie Tilley, associate professor of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Committee:
Anna Gawboy, The Ohio State University, Chair
Ryan Skinner, The Ohio State University
Katie Graber, The Ohio State University
David Heinsen, The Ohio State University
Anabel Maler, The University of British Columbia
Questions? Email Alex Sallade at sallade.5@osu.edu